A Feminist's Guide to Literature

Weekly suggestions for empowering books!

Lisa Taddeo followed the lives of three real women as they sought to come to terms with their own self. In this book, she portrays how all three women struggle with their womanhood. They are all confronted with their sexuality in their formative years and see their worth attached to it. Lina is raped by three peers from her school; Maggie is drawn into a consuming relationship with a teacher; and Sloane is taught that her body is a tool with which to define her place in society. None of them believe that they are enough, that they are worthy. And none of them are surrounded by people who communicate this to them.

Lisa Taddeo writes in her epilogue: “Women have agency, but children do not.” One of the questions the book powerfully raises is whether this agency is affected when its lack thereof is abused at a young age.

Make sure to check out Three Women yourself.